Fascinating stories of people working at Google, Facebook, and Apple who don’t meet the Silicon Valley stereotype

Earlier this week, Google fired engineer James Damore after he wrote a memoasserting that biological differences between men and women are responsible for the tech industry’s gender gap. The 10-page document, first reported by Motherboard, criticizes Google initiatives designed to increase gender and racial diversity.

Silicon Valley has always battled a diversity problem, but in recent years, it’s been getting extra attention. According to reports released by the largest tech companies in 2015, the stats are pretty dismal. Women hold only 18% of Google’s tech jobs. Only 1% of Twitter employees are black. At Facebook, Read More Here